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There was a particularly tense moment aboard the International Space Station earlier this month, with NASA directing their astronauts to secure themselves in the Dragon capsule and prepare for a …read more

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Knowing absolutely nothing about you other than the fact that you’re currently reading Hackaday, I can predict with a high degree of certainty that we’re both fond of at least …read more

A Brief History Of Unix Commands On Windows: CoreUtils (Again)

If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For …read more

Picking A CRC

You send a file, but how do you know it arrived intact? In other words, how do you know that it didn’t get cut off, garbled, or changed somehow? Simplistically, …read more

NASA Announces Artemis III Crew And Ambitious Goals

When the Artemis lunar program was first conceived, the third mission would have seen astronauts step foot on the Moon for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972. But …read more

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Home Automation: Simple Vs Easy

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By Elliot Williams | June 20, 2026

We’ve been talking a bunch of home automation on the Podcast lately, and this week, in the Mailbag segment, a reader asked us about our setups. Neither Kristina nor I …read more
The Repair Nightmare That Are Smart Rings

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By Maya Posch | June 20, 2026

In the quest to make every wearable device ‘smart’, a lot of electronics along have to be crammed in very small spaces, along with ways to make them resistant to …read more
A General Purpose Pi Zero Device For IoT

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By Jenny List | June 20, 2026

By now we’re all used to single board computers such as the Raspberry Pi Zero, but it’s likely we’ve all been frustrated at times by the number of support components …read more
Making Old Computers Count To A Million

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By Zoe Skyforest | June 19, 2026

How fast can you count to a million? It would probably take you a while. A computer could certainly do it faster. Indeed, the The National Museum of Computing figured …read more
How LLMs Can Be Assisted To Do Arithmetic Correctly

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By Maya Posch | June 19, 2026

One of the most hilarious things you can do with an LLM-based chatbot is to ask it to do calculations. If it’s a well-written chatbot frontend, it can detect requests …read more
Epson HX-20 Gets A Drive Upgrade

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By Zoe Skyforest | June 19, 2026

The Epson HX-20 is sometimes referred to as an early laptop computer. It’s a little odd in its form factor, and in its storage, relying on a microcassette drive to …read more
PCBs Straight From The Magazine

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By Bryan Cockfield | June 19, 2026

It’s never been easier to get a printed circuit board made. In fact, almost every electronics video out on the internet will incessantly remind you of this fact now. But …read more

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